You know the story of how two Cambridge students, Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss (who also directs) created this Tudor “herstory”, took it to Edinburgh, and recently opened it after COVID del…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWhen you take your seats at the Chiswick Playhouse, you note how richly detailed the set is for Love Dance. We are in a flat which is presumably a decent one-bed set-up with a shared living/…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMarsha Norman’s 1981 play won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama on its debut, and remains one of the best plays I have read on the page, long before I saw it acted. The story of Jessie C…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMPete is lonely. His dad is sick, his mother dead, his job boring. His only love is his cello, until he connects to Angie through a lonelyhearts ad.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMorgan Lloyd Malcolm's new play is a raw and physical exploration of how motherhood can be tough, and how some mothers can be failed by the system set up to protect their children. Th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMAs five conspiratorial servants potter around the stage before the show proper, we know this is going to be no typical Jane Austen adaptation. This is Pride and Prejudice as you never knew i…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMichele Lee’s Rice is a deeply ambitious play, populated by numerous characters and performed by two actors. Zainab Hassan and Sarah Lam first appear as an Indian-born executive, Ni…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMOne of the three Papatango New Writing prize-winning audio plays now available to listen to at a theatre near you, Nkenna Akunna’s Some of Us Exist in the Future is an ambitious piece whic…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMIsley Lynn’s complex and clever play, albatross, is revived by the represent theatre company as the first of two productions in their inaugural season. The stage at the Playground T…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThe setting is one building in Brixton. The subject is tradition, family, community and change. A cast of four men and two women bring the play to life.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMartin McDonagh’s black comedy piece, co-produced by Chichester Festival Theatre and the Lyric Hammersmith, proves to be a deeper exploration of family conflict and secrets than his The Li…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMDirector Adam Lenson has something to say about musicals. In this essential text for theatre lovers, he challenges your perceptions of what a musical can, is, and might be.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTheatres were in trouble over the whole of 2020, and many are still waiting for audiences to return to their pre-pandemic levels.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMOn 11 September 2021, it will mark the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. To commemorate the anniversary, Apple TV+ has filmed a performance of …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMAny new musical must bring cause for celebration, and so I approached this one with some interest. First planned as a stage production and billed as “the world’s first theremin musical…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTwin sisterhood, space, and the uncertain near future are at play in Amy Berryman’s debut play, Walden, which recently enjoyed a run on stage as part of the Re:Emerge season at the Harold …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMCurrently running in stage in the Little at Southwark Playhouse, Lazarus Theatre’s version of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé proves to be a daring, electric, and exhausting feat of theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMPaul is dead, killed at his own party. Everyone is a suspect, and most of them had a motive. Written and performed by Emily Head, directed by Guy Unsworth, The System is filmed live in one t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMGarry Roost’s play Warhol: Bullet Karma focuses on the events around his shooting by Valerie Solanas (this ground was covered from a more feminist perspective in Femme Fatale).
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMLost in Love is a new play presented by Flow Stage Productions. A brash and funny lady, Emily (Rachel Pryde) has something to tell about her life and the men in it.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMBette Davis Ain’t For Sissies (the title refers to a Davis quote of some years later about old age) references the women’s lot in the Golden Age of Hollywood – exploitative auditions, …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTill Love Do Us Part isn’t one of the flashiest productions on the digital fringe in terms of its technical style, but the writing carries it through.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMOver on the ZOOTV platform at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, you’ll find Planet of the Grapes, a delicious livestream performed live in New York City. I’m told that on Sunday the city wa…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMarie Lloyd Stole My Life is a beautifully written show, full of pathos and conjuring up the mores and expectations of the time – notably, both Power and Lloyd died prematurely, which high…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMNuworks Theatre, from Australia, bring their lively and passionate musical (written, directed and designed by David Dunn, with choreography by Meg Dunn) about the fight for women’s suffrag…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMEast Belfast Boy intrigues from the first frame, and lends itself perfectly to the new format, redefining the boundaries between disparate art forms.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMIn Call Me Elizabeth Kayla Boye takes on the difficult task of writing about, and portraying the icon which was Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011). Just like Marilyn Monroe, you feel you already k…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMCelebrating 21 years as a hit radio show, the Dead Ringers team – in this case, Jon Culshaw, Debra Stephenson and Duncan Wisbey – have taken up a late August residency in the Big Top ven…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMOriginally planned to be performed live at Summerhall, Katie Bonna’s audio play, The Entertainment, is “about what we carry around inside us”.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWritten and performed by Patricia Légaré Eddisford, The Tarantula is just under an hour of monologue, a story that transcends its one-room location.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMQuackpot Productions has brought fresh and quirky show Meet Cute to the Camden Fringe, in which Tim and Gill’s budding romance goes anything but smoothly.
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